If you have a recent technology budget, it helps to look there first, but if that’s all you do, it’s easy to perpetuate the oversights you made last year and the year before. You can also look at sample budgets for small, medium, and large libraries on WebJunction's website and examples from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Another budgeting model that might help you think specifically about your technology spending is called Total cost of ownership.

As we mentioned earlier, ask other libraries and other city government departments if you can see their technology budget. They may have included items that you forgot.